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The country has already endured record-high temperatures this year, and July and August tend to be the hottest and driest months.

SOLSONA, Spain (AP) — Surveying the hills covered with near bone-dry pines stretching to the Pyrenees in the distance, Asier Larrañaga has reason to be on guard. This part of northeast Spain is, like large swaths of the Mediterranean country, braced for wildfires due to the lethal combination of a prolonged drought, record-high temperatures and […]

Surveying the hills covered with near bone-dry pines stretching to the Pyrenees in the distance, Asier Larrañaga has reason to be on guard. This part of northeast Spain is, like large swaths of the Mediterranean country, braced for wildfires due to the lethal combination of a prolonged drought, record-high temperatures, and increasingly dense woods unable to adapt to a fast-changing climate, The Associated Press said.

Surveying the hills covered with near bone-dry pines stretching to the Pyrenees in the distance, Asier Larraaga has reason to be on guard.

Take a prolonged drought amid record-high temperatures for Spain, toss in an increasingly dense forest unable to adapt to a fast-changing climate, and Asier Larrañaga has reason to be on guard

Take a prolonged drought amid record-high temperatures for Spain, toss in an increasingly dense forest unable to adapt to a fast-changing climate, and Asier Larrañaga has reason to be on

The country has already endured record-high temperatures this year, and July and August tend to be the hottest and driest months.

Take a prolonged drought amid record-high temperatures for Spain, toss in an increasingly dense forest unable to adapt to a fast-changing climate, and Asier Larrañaga has reason to be on

Spain suffered the biggest losses from wildfires of any European Union country last year amid a record-hot 2022. Now, firefighters are preparing for a potential scorcher of a summer.

The Catalonia region, which is hugely popular with tourists, is at risk of devastating wildfires this summer and temperatures skyrocket.